Narrated by I.P. Freely. Karl's back is weak where my back was weak, in the middle where the erector muscles are used to keep the back straight instead of hunched over. Karl is hunched from being so tall all of his life, mine tends to protrude outwards after having so many asthma attacks (the typical asthma sufferer tends to have a sunken chest and hunched back from the structurally damaging pull that happens on each attempted breath during an asthma attack where the lungs try to pull air through airways that are fully constricted). Karl's back is much more capable of being fixed than mine is, but I have actually taken the steps to fix the issues that the asthma attacks left me, but it doesn't seem that Karl has figured out a way to strengthen his 'tall man's spine' so that he doesn't get constantly bullied down on the block (though it has led to a lot of bad calls as the refs react to him falling and flailing rather than seeing that he simply just doesn't absorb body contact well). The posterior chain is often overlooked and almost never kept balanced with the muscles in the front of the body that we tend to put more focus on (such as the pecs, biceps, quads, and abs), and other than the upper back muscles you're not going to find enough options to keep your body properly balanced if the only place you train your body is in a gym. Playing sports will likely force one to start doing things right, plus gym equipment rarely requires any actual body movement which is what we need more of in our exercising. If you do prefer the gym than just change things up with some creativity since there's plenty of stuff to use and you can surely figure out better ways to exercise and hopefully avoid most of the 'seated' machines.
Example of Karl Towns not being able to absorb contact (weak spine)
Narrated by I.P. Freely. Karl's back is weak where my back was weak, in the middle where the erector muscles are used to keep the back straight instead of hunched over. Karl is hunched from being so tall all of his life, mine tends to protrude outwards after having so many asthma attacks (the typical asthma sufferer tends to have a sunken chest and hunched back from the structurally damaging pull that happens on each attempted breath during an asthma attack where the lungs try to pull air through airways that are fully constricted). Karl's back is much more capable of being fixed than mine is, but I have actually taken the steps to fix the issues that the asthma attacks left me, but it doesn't seem that Karl has figured out a way to strengthen his 'tall man's spine' so that he doesn't get constantly bullied down on the block (though it has led to a lot of bad calls as the refs react to him falling and flailing rather than seeing that he simply just doesn't absorb body contact well). The posterior chain is often overlooked and almost never kept balanced with the muscles in the front of the body that we tend to put more focus on (such as the pecs, biceps, quads, and abs), and other than the upper back muscles you're not going to find enough options to keep your body properly balanced if the only place you train your body is in a gym. Playing sports will likely force one to start doing things right, plus gym equipment rarely requires any actual body movement which is what we need more of in our exercising. If you do prefer the gym than just change things up with some creativity since there's plenty of stuff to use and you can surely figure out better ways to exercise and hopefully avoid most of the 'seated' machines.
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